Overall, this week has been fairly mundane with a couple of rainy days working in the office and the rest of the week removing invasive non-native plants (see Plant of the Week below).
However, on a sunny Wednesday morning a few of us got the opportunity...

Though we a situated in the heartland of the Red Dragon, it has been the Blue Dragons that have been most prominent these last couple of weeks. The soaring temperature, reaching around 25°C, gave dragonflies and butterflies the chance to warm up and...

Recently we have had reason to celebrate and think to the future, as RSPB Cymru and Severn Trent Water have come to an agreement which sees the RSPB take on a long term Farm Business Tenancy lease of Tŷ-Llwyd farm. Full story can be read HERE .
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Birds
Despite the poor season for nest box breeding birds the woods are still alive with the sound of newly fledged birds. Tit families, high pitch squeaking Goldcrest chicks and Warblers have been quite noticeable. A few warbler nests that have been...

In the last blog it was mentioned that Tit species had struggled to raise broods and that Pied Flycatchers were just hatching with a heatwave forecast later in the week. Well we got a mini heatwave but night temperatures were still getting close to freezing...